Psalms 43:2

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men. ²For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression?³Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell. ⁴Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God. ⁵Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the God: Psalms 28:7, Psalms 140:7, Exodus 15:2, Isaiah 40:31, Isaiah 45:24, Zechariah 10:12, Ephesians 6:10, Philippians 4:13

why dost: Psalms 71:9, Psalms 77:7, Psalms 94:14, 1 Chronicles 28:9

why go: Psalms 42:9

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:12 - the people 2 Samuel 15:30 - and wept as he went up 1 Chronicles 16:27 - strength Job 29:5 - the Almighty Job 30:28 - General Job 35:9 - they make Psalms 27:1 - strength Psalms 38:6 - mourning Psalms 44:9 - General Psalms 51:11 - Cast Psalms 54:1 - judge Psalms 55:2 - I mourn Psalms 88:14 - Lord Psalms 94:3 - Lord Psalms 94:19 - General Song of Solomon 3:2 - I sought Daniel 10:2 - I Daniel

Cross-References

Genesis 43:1
Now the famine was still severe in the land.

Genesis 43:2
So when Jacob's sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go back and buy a little more food for us."

Genesis 43:4
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

Genesis 43:6
"Why did you bring this trouble upon me?" Israel asked. "Why did you tell the man you had another brother?"

Genesis 43:8
And Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die-neither we, nor you, nor our children.

Genesis 43:20
"Please, sir," they said, "we really did come down here the first time to buy food.

Proverbs 15:16
Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 31:16
She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.

1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou [art] the God of my strength,.... Who being the strong and mighty God was able to deliver and save him, as well as to plead his cause; and was the author and giver of strength, natural and spiritual, to him; and was the strength of his heart, life and salvation; and is a good reason why he committed his cause unto him;

why doest thou cast me off? this is the language of unbelief: it being what was not in reality, only in appearance: the psalmist was ready to conclude he was cast off and rejected of God, because he was afflicted and left in a desolate condition by him, and he did not immediately arise to his help and deliverance, and had withdrawn the light of his countenance from him; but God does not cast off or reject any of his people; they always continue in his love, and in his covenant, and in the hands of his Son; they are always in his sight and family, and shall never perish eternally; and whoever casts them off, or casts them out, he will not;

why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou art the God of my strength - See Psalms 18:2, note; Psalms 28:7, note.

Why dost thou cast me off? - As if I were none of thine; as if I were wholly abandoned. Compare the notes at Psalms 22:1. The word rendered “cast off” - זנח zânach - is a word which implies strong disgust or loathing: “Why dost thou cast me off as a loathsome or disgusting object?” Compare Revelation 3:16. The Hebrew word means properly to be foul, to be rancid, to stink: then, to be loathsome or abominable; and then, to treat or regard anything as such. Compare Hosea 8:3, Hosea 8:5; Isaiah 19:6.

Why go I mourning ... - See the notes at Psalms 42:9. This expression, with others of a similar character, renders it morally certain that this psalm was composed by the same person, and with reference to the same circumstances, as the former.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 43:2. For those art the God of my strength — The psalmist speaks here, as in other places, in the person of the whole Israelitish people then captive in Babylon. We still acknowledge thee for our God. Why are we cast off? Now that we are humbled and penitent, why are we not enlarged? Why are we not saved from this oppression of the Babylonians?